Friday, 27 April 2012

Ten pound poms: Australia's invisible migrants by James A. Hammerton and Alistair Taylor

Manchester University Press 2005
ISBN: 9780719071331


Over I million Britons emigrated between the 1940’s and 70’s – the “Ten Pound Poms”!  This book explores the experiences of these immigrants through oral history interviews, letters, diaries, photographs and memoirs. In one of the first collections of this kind the experiences of these people is documented, the authors explore the intense homesickness, the humour and the life-changing stories of these immigrants, not just of those who settled in Australia, but also the stories of those who went home to England.

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